The mineralogy of desert dust is important due to its effect on radiation, clouds and biogeochemical cycling of trace nutrients. This study presents the simulation of dust as a function of both mineral composition and size ...

This thesis presents the nonlinear propagation dynamics in isotropic media. The influence of initial conditions on the propagation dynamics is considered. Three different instances are considered. We experimentally and ...

A multivariate regular varying distribution can be characterized by its marginals and a finite measure on the unit sphere. That measure is referred to as the spectral measure of the
distribution. The spectral measure ...

Record types are an important tool for programming and dependent record types are proven to be very useful for program specification and verification. Unfortunately all known embedding of the dependent record type in the ...

In this thesis, a case study of ten nursing homes is used to identify different styles of management and different approaches to dealing with conflict. Much of the literature on conflict focuses on determining which types ...

Potyviruses are the largest group of plant viruses and can infect pepper, potato and tomato which were the focus of this dissertation. Pepper resistance to potyviruses has been attributed to point mutations at the pvr1 ...

Silicon photonics has tremendous potential to provide high-bandwidth and low-power data communication for applications such as computing and telecommunication, over length scales ranging from 100 kilometers over fiber to ...

A simple and scalable deposition process was developed to prepare polylactic acid (PLA) coatings with enhanced water barrier properties for food packaging applications. This method based on electrostatic interactions between ...

Organic semiconductors, in particular organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), have been gaining recognition and spurring development in the electronics world now for more than a decade. The use of organic semiconductors is ...

When a pit is dug in soil, it commonly happens that at a
certain depth, water seeps from the soil to form a shallow
pool at the bottom; at this point, the pit is said to have
reached the water table. When the pit is ...

A distributed algorithm is developed that can be used to compute the topology of a network, given that each site starts with information about sites it is adjacent to, the network is strongly connected, and communication ...

A recent trend in program methodologies is to derive efficient parallel programs from sequential programs. This paper explores the question of transforming a sequential algorithm into an efficient parallel algorithm by ...

The use of weakest-precondition predicate tranformers in the derivation of sequential, process-control software is discussed. Only one extension to Dijkstra's calculus for deriving ordinary sequential programs was found ...

This thesis concerns the development and analysis of derivative-free optimization algorithms for simulation-based functions that are computationally expensive to evaluate.
The first contribution is the introduction of ...

A systematic transformational approach is given for deriving incremental programs from non-incremental programs. We exploit partial evaluation, other static analysis and transformation techniques, and domain-specific ...